[Video, shortly after midnight]

[professorwolf]

[What begins as merely trying to catch a meteor on record for his own personal interest and for various friends rather quickly became something else entirely. And Lyall spent a few minutes afterwards figuring out how to upload what he caught on his device onto the network.

So everyone gets a nice video of the second two thirds of that falling object's trajectory, and a couple seconds of the beginnings of a warm glow on the horizon. Then they get Lyall coming on the screen right after. He's out in the more local woods, dressed only in his coat, and looking a little bit rumpled, for once. His voice, however, is a bit deadpan as he speaks to the practical and pointedly doesn't mention the bit about the thing from space.]

I believe there may be a fire starting in the western forest. If there are still Authorities monitoring this channel, someone may wish to be dispatched to contain it, unless there isn't much risk of it spreading too far.

Comments

[Video]

[hypospraying]

Of course. It tends to slip my mind that you're on a different schedule from myself.

[Video]

[professorwolf]

Easy to do, really. Most people expect others to conform to their own schedules, and have to make an effort to recall any deviances.

[And Lyall is just used to it, anyhow, so he certainly isn't taking any offense.]

[Video]

[hypospraying]

Back on the ship -- my ship, I mean -- we had rotating eight hour shifts: Alpha, Beta, and Gamma. Though sometimes something would come up, like a patient we wanted to personally monitor, so we'd mess up our own schedules and get off track.

[Video]

[professorwolf]

Did you really.

[He looks amused. Alpha, Beta, and Gamma, huh? He has to wonder which is which, and whether he would be awake for the "Beta" shift.]

And why did you decide to pick those names for them? Is the Greek common for nomenclature?

[Video]

[hypospraying]

Maybe Starfleet wanted to add some Old World charm. But really, it's just as easy to say 'day shift, swing shift, and night shift,' so I'm not sure as to their reasoning.

[Video]

[professorwolf]

So "Beta" shift would be late afternoon to, say, midnight? And then "Gamma" shift would be midnight until morning? How amusing. -- Ah, to explain, in werewolf packs, the leader is called the Alpha, the second is called the Beta, and the third the Gamma. Hence my amusement.

[Video]

[hypospraying]

Exactly.

[She looks amused right back.]

Thinking our shifts were named after you guys?

[professorwolf]

Ah, nothing quite so personal. I simply found the coincidence amusing. Adding a little Greek or Latin does seem to add a little flair to any title, wouldn't you say?

[Now he's definitely joking a bit.]

[hypospraying]

I'd say so.

And now I think I've kept you awake long enough, so I'll leave you to rest.